User blog comment:JayAaerow/Administrative Blog: Finding Sources/@comment-26222858-20150319151341/@comment-6769189-20150319174908

We have the canon statemants about the anime.

DmC was initially referred to as a reboot, rebirth, prequal, and then they finally said it doesn't take place in the same timeline as 1-4. It also can't be a reboot anymore because they are still using the original story. There is a video on youtube and plenty of articles to confirm this.

Nero supposedly the same age as Dante was in DMC3. That needs to be clarified here.